{"id":7578,"date":"2011-02-03T07:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7578"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:28:23","slug":"tools-for-protest-marchers-anti-kettling-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/tools-for-protest-marchers-anti-kettling-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for protest marchers: anti-kettling app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/feb\/02\/inside-anti-kettling-hq\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Kingsley<\/a> talks to the developers of &#8220;Sukey&#8221;, a new mobile phone app intended to help protesters avoid being kettled by police:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cairo, it wasn&#8217;t. But at about a quarter to four last Saturday afternoon, on a crowded backstreet in central London, something happened outside the Egyptian embassy that deserves at least a footnote in the annals of protest history. A crowd of students weren&#8217;t kettled.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of recent British protests, this was a near-miracle. At each of the previous four major student protests in London since the Millbank riot on 10 November, police have kettled &mdash; or, in their terminology, &#8220;contained&#8221; &mdash; thousands of protesters, preventing them from leaving an area for several hours, and often from accessing basic amenities such as food, water and toilets.<\/p>\n<p>Police kettle protesters supposedly to quell violence, but protesters arguably only turn to violence out of frustration at being kettled. Most notoriously, police trapped hundreds of teenage schoolchildren inside a tight grid on Whitehall on 24 November &mdash; and only subsequently did a few of them smash up a police van abandoned in their midst.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s non-kettle, then, was a victory in itself. But the real excitement wasn&#8217;t that it didn&#8217;t happen &mdash; but how it didn&#8217;t happen. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly why police and protesters behave in a certain way at a certain time, but one explanation for the kettle&#8217;s failure to form lies with a new communications network, which launched that afternoon: Sukey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kingsley talks to the developers of &#8220;Sukey&#8221;, a new mobile phone app intended to help protesters avoid being kettled by police: Cairo, it wasn&#8217;t. But at about a quarter to four last Saturday afternoon, on a crowded backstreet in central London, something happened outside the Egyptian embassy that deserves at least a footnote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,28,370,15],"tags":[588,350,98,720,742,547,92],"class_list":["post-7578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-middle-east","category-technology","tag-egypt","tag-london","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-rioting","tag-smartphones","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Ye","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10601,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions\/10601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}